Metafont (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Metafont" in English language version.

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Knuth, Donald (January 25, 2000). "Interview: Donald E. Knuth" (Interview). Interviewed by Advogato. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2016. ...the mathematics is really simple for a quadratic. The corresponding thing for a cubic is six times as complicated...

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pts.szit.bme.hu

TeXtrace – a collection of scripts for UNIX that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline font immediately suitable for use with dvips, pdftex, acroread (and any many other programs). Created by Peter Szabo.

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metafont.tutorial.free.fr

Christophe Grandsir. "METAFONT Tutorial".

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mftrace – a small Python program that lets you trace a TeX bitmap font into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or TTF (TrueType) font. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. Created by Han-Wen Nienhuys. Versions prior to 1.0.5 were called 'pktrace'.

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Knuth, Donald (1982). "The Concept of a Meta-Font" (PDF). Visible Language. 16 (1): 3–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-07.

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"Knuth: Computers and Typesetting".

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Rokicki, Tomas (1985). "Packed (PK) Font File Format" (PDF). TUGboat. 6 (3): 115–120. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
CSTUG, Charles University, Prague, March 1996, Questions and Answers with Prof. Donald E. Knuth, reproduced in TUGboat 17 (4) (1996), 355–67. Citation is from page 361. Available online at
"R. J. Kinch, "MetaFog: converting Metafont shapes to contours", TUGboat 16(3), 233–43 (1995)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2000-10-05.

twitter.com (Global: 43^rd place; English: 43^rd place)

Hoefler, Jonathan. "Knuth's idea that letters start with skeletal forms is flawed. But his work is important and had lasting impact". Twitter. Retrieved 18 August 2018.

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Rokicki, Tomas (1985). "Packed (PK) Font File Format" (PDF). TUGboat. 6 (3): 115–120. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
Knuth, Donald (January 25, 2000). "Interview: Donald E. Knuth" (Interview). Interviewed by Advogato. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2016. ...the mathematics is really simple for a quadratic. The corresponding thing for a cubic is six times as complicated...
Knuth, Donald (1982). "The Concept of a Meta-Font" (PDF). Visible Language. 16 (1): 3–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-07.
"R. J. Kinch, "MetaFog: converting Metafont shapes to contours", TUGboat 16(3), 233–43 (1995)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2000-10-05.